He became known as ‘Drew Hill - the celebrity artist’. Celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Pryor, Burt Reynolds, and more came to purchase this man’s art. His work was incredible and a local studio, infinity studios, invited him to work in their studio. He told people he was former NFL player Drew Hill, and he now is a painter. When Richard started to fall in love with making art, he never thought people would just be interested in his art without a compelling story - so he created one. He found that when you have nothing and are down, people will only listen to you if you make up lies and tell them things they might be interested in. As he went through life, every time he fell down he had nothing to go back to. While the crowd he was rolling with allowed him to make money, drive nice cars, and feel like he made something of himself, it also is the reason he ended up in prison many times throughout his life for white collar crime. Growing up in Georgia as a young black man in the 60s was not easy, and he finally found a place where he felt like he belonged. As a teenager, he started to get involved with the wrong crowd because he really had nowhere else to go. He hated his family so much that he decided to start using a fake name - a small detail, yet extremely important part of the story. He ended up in foster care with basically nothing. His dad left when he was young and his mom was never around. Richard has been homeless for over 6 years, but his story begins as a child.
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